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Aborigine rage after golliwog doll goes on sale in tourist shops in Australia

May 21st, 2012 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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Richard Shears


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20:08 EST, 20 May 2012

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04:21 EST, 21 May 2012


Racist: Golliwog dolls have begun appearing in shops in Australia, infuriating aborigines

Racist: Golliwog dolls have begun appearing in shops in Australia, infuriating aborigines

A race row has erupted in Australia over the popular return of golliwog dolls to tourist shops in Queensland.

The black-faced dolls, imported from China by an Australian firm, have begun appearing in tourist and novelty shops in resorts north of Brisbane – and Aboriginal elders are furious.

Mr Bob Weatherall, chairman of the Centre for Indigenous Cultural Policy, said the dolls were ‘offensive’ and should be banned.

‘It doesn’t bring unity within a community,’ he told Brisbane’s Courier Mail.

‘It doesn’t bring back equity.’

Golliwog dolls have been widely condemned as racist and campaigns have succeeded in their removal from the public eye, particularly in Britain, the U.S. and Europe.

But they have begun to make a comeback in Australia, with stores in Queensland reporting strong sales, particularly to older people who are reminded of dolls from their childhood.

It is believed several Australian companies began importing the golliwog dolls – they are also known as gollywogs – after they were made available on a Chinese website.

One Australian website offered the dolls for sale at about £10 each and provided background information on the history and meaning of golliwogs.

Many of the purchasers are buying them as special gifts for their grandparents, who would remember the dolls well.

Store owner Deanne Edwards, who sells about 20 golliwogs a week at her store in the resort town of Hervey Bay, said: ‘We absolutely love them. The kids love them, I love them.’

And Miss Hayley Whitford, who has a store in the seaside town of Caloundra, said that for a lot of older buyers the dolls were something from their childhood.

An Australian biscuit firm, Arnotts, used to have a chocolate biscuit called a golliwog but it was renamed Scalliwag and eventually discontinued in the 1990s.

Pointing out the different spellings, the website referred to the Collins Australian Dictionary which ‘defines a Gollywood as a black faced, goggle eyed fantastically dressed doll…’ It also states that the Macquarie Australian Dictionary defines a Gollywog as ‘a soft, black faced doll’.

Golliwogs were created by Florence Upton who was born in New York to English parents in 1873.

Just how she came up with the name has various explanations but it is believed she altered the Pollywog, a dialect word meaning ‘wiggle head’ like in the movement of a tadpole.

Others have suggested the name comes from the word ‘Golly’ because of the surprised look on the doll’s face.

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you think the native people would mind if they received royalties or profit for the sale of each one of these?

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I used to get enraged and looking for a lawyer to ease my financial lifestyle when I saw kids building snowmen then my then wife told me to get a life and think of the important things in life, like taking it on the chin and smiling back.

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Hutch New Zealand. We have had the dolls on sale for years why now… It is the same in the ~UK we used to have the trade mark Golli on jars of jam and Rupert Bear had one in his stories then the PC brigade decided it was offensive so now we have this situation.

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I know the ‘original’ Aussies have had a bad deal, but these objectors are all up themselves, if you get my meaning.

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@Simon Avery, Are you for real? The ugliest race is in the world? Do you know stupid that makes you sound? And have you forgot that any Aboriginals you have seen in such a state are in that state because of what we did to their homeland? What other choice did they have when a society forms around them, yet purposely excludes and degrades them? They wernt even entitled to go to schools that long ago so it’s not exactly hard to understand how sidelined they are in their own country.

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I had a golly as a young child and loved it to bits. What is wrong with that?

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But they have had them in Australia for years, shops dedicated to them – so why all the fuss now?

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These dolls have been on sale in Melbourne and the Gold Coast for at least five years. It seems to have taken an awful long time for the Aboriginal people to have cottoned on. I am totally against cabbage patch dolls, well I would be I have cauliflower ears.

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I have one of these little fellows that sits on an unused phone bracket in my car. He loves riding around with me, and if he annoys some numpty with a thin skin, then so much the better. I gave him a home after I found him in a tourist shop, and very happy about it he is too.

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“Would these idiots object to a white doll? – Kasredin, Wansbeck, 21/5/2012 6:47” ——————– I guess the subtleties and interpretations of such images are beyond you.
– John Frum, Returning To The South Pacific Someday., 21/5/2012 08:34

As the past cannot be un-invented I guess the stupidity of the current situation escapes you.

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